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Learn how treatment fails people, and why they turn to Listed below are some common questions. Please read them carefully, and do not hesitate to call if you still need assistance. We are here to help.
Regardless of your financial situation the St. Jude Retreats has a program for you. Pricing varies depending upon length of stay and which retreat is chosen. Please call our toll free number for current pricing information
There are a few affordable financing options available through M-Lend Financing and other leading finance companies. See our Financing Options or please give us a call for more information.
All substance abuse treatment programs including those listed as "alternative programs" that accept medical insurance, local, state or federal funding and/or fall under state regulatory agencies for addiction treatment providers must keep medical records of each patient, and make them accessible to any government agency, prospective employer and insurance company upon request. The Saint Jude Retreats does not participate in government funding programs, does not work with health insurance companies and as a social-educational program is not subject to the state regulatory agency requirements for drug treatment providers. We have maintained this independent status specifically so we may keep your records private
Currently we have three St. Jude Retreats. Please call for locations. People come from all over the country and world to attend our unique and successful program. When you call, ask about assistance with travel arrangements, tours of our locations, and also our Family Liaison Services
The Saint Jude Program is 6 weeks in length. If you feel you or your loved one may need a longer program we also offer The Saint Jude Personal Review and Enhancement Program (P.R.E.P). This personalized program can range from 2 additional weeks to as long as deemed necessary by the individual, the family and retreat house staff. Approximately 15-20% of Saint Jude Program graduates attend the P.R.E.P. The average length of stay is 4 weeks, making the combined length of stay an average of 2 1/2 months.
We also offer a 4 week accelerated program at our Executive Retreat. Learn more about the Saint Jude Executive Retreat.
Yes, we work with Gallus Detox Centers. We chose Gallus Detox because no other detox center in the country offers a medical method of detox like theirs. We can also arrange detox services in your area, as well. Please call for information regarding detoxification or click here for more information.
Our full time career and academic advisor will work directly with the school or college to either get your son or daughter's curriculum sent to St. Jude's or get the work load deferred so you do not lose their college tuition. We also have a team certified teachers who are here to assist your son or daughter get through this difficult time. Do not hesitate to help your child based on the fear that their education will suffer - remember, should they attend college or high school with no solution to their drug or alcohol problems, their schooling is sure to suffer. We can teach your son and daughter how to avoid this unnecessary situation while learning the skills to remain sober for a lifetime!
The St. Jude Retreats understand that sometimes approaching your loved one about a drug or alcohol problem can be half the battle. While pop television shows may glamorize traditional, confrontational type interventions, research has shown this methodology to be ineffective and oftentimes having the detrimental effect of pushing your loved one even farther away from the help they need. But there is a solution. The St. Jude Retreats' Family Liaison, is not a traditional Interventionist, but rather a Program specialist whose mission is to assist you to effectively walk through the process of finding the help your loved one needs. Please call today for a free consultation. Please Click Here to Learn about our Intervention Services Alternative.
St. Jude's offers a members only website called the St. Jude Corner to all families upon admission of their loved one to the St. Jude Program. Immediately upon booking a reservation family member(s) will be emailed an invitation to login to the St. Jude Corner site. This site provides family members access to up-to-date program materials, supplemental reading materials list, information regarding each specific retreat house including staffing and scheduling of meals and activities, social activities and menus, and also educational information written specifically for parents and family members of program participants. Families are encouraged to explore the St. Jude Corner and contact the Program Directors, Instructors or Family Consultants if they have any specific questions or would like to set up a personal meeting with program staff. Meetings can be done in person or via Skype. Additionally the St. Jude Home Program is also available at www.sjhomeprogram.com for family members who are looking to make their own personal life changes. Sundays at the Retreats are Family Days and family and loved ones are welcome to visit. A family brunch is served Sunday mornings and a family dinner is served in the afternoon. Please call our reservations office anytime for additional information, to set up a private meeting or if you have any problems accessing the St. Jude Corner.
This is a common question because of the popularity of traditional treatment programs and support groups. These organizations espouse the idea that to stay sober and drug free one must have ongoing external support, but in fact, this is not the case. The truth is those who are most successful at overcoming substance abuse do so and move on with their lives without requiring ongoing support. Instead they build networks of family, friends and co-workers who are positive and supportive; much the same as all successful people. While attending the Saint Jude Program and if requested, the Saint Jude Continuing Education Program, our guests build friendships with various staff members and oftentimes will keep continued contact via private e-mail or phone. The availability of this ongoing contact can be especially helpful to guests and their families during those first few weeks or months after returning home. Based on our true choice based philosophy, continued correspondence between the graduate and our staff is only established after such a request for continued contact is initiated by the guest.
We have worked with law enforcement agencies and employers throughout the country. Upon your request we can provide enrollment letters, completion letters, drug screening results and any other information requested by law enforcement or an employer to help you to fulfill your obligations.
Each year the St. Jude Retreats invites an independent research organization to conduct a follow-up survey of our graduate population. A call is made to a random sampling of program graduates to inquire as to their sobriety status. Then a second phone call is made to a corroborating witness for each graduate, usually the person who provided the financial help for the guest to attend our program. Currently our success rate is 62%. Sober statistics are based on abstinence from all substances. While there are graduates who have successfully moderated their substance use and dramatically improved their lives, they still fall into the actively using category for the purposes of statistical analysis. In short, we do not bias results or fabricate data for marketing purposes as so many other programs do. Research our Success Rate
The St. Jude Retreats are regulated by the Department of Health and the Attorney General Charities Bureau. We are a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 organization. Our Directors, Assistant Directors and Instructors come from a variety of professional backgrounds including education, administration and mental health to name a few. All our instructors have to become CBE Certified (learn more about the certification process), the most stringent certification process in all of the substance use education industry. The St. Jude Retreats are not medical facilities instead offers a social/educational approach not a medical treatment program. As such, the St. Jude Retreats do not provide services that require licensure by the State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services. All medical appointments are administered by licensed professionals off site, and transportation to and from these appointments is provided.
We understand that the Saint Jude Retreat House name could lead people to believe that we are a religious organization offering a religious program, however we are not. The Saint Jude Program is not a religious program, nor do we teach people they must "find God" or spirituality to achieve sobriety as those programs have been shown to have much lower rates of success.
The founders of the Saint Jude Retreats are Catholic and have chosen to honor St. Judes by giving the program and retreats his name. The Saint Jude Retreats were built from the ground up through the hard work, generosity and kindness of those who believed in our mission; to build the most successful program to help people to overcome substance abuse. There were many volunteers who helped to rebuild our houses and financial supporters who kept our doors open through those first several building years. Oftentimes the founders went to St. Jude, the patron of hopeless causes, to ask for his help as they built the program and today they credit St. Jude for helping them to make the Saint Jude Program the most effective substance abuse program nationwide.
Baldwin Research Institute, our parent company, has been conducting research since the 1980's and continues to develop and track effective approaches to substance abuse. Visit them at www.baldwinresearch.com
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